2010. “Ancient and Modern Approaches to the Representation of Supernatural Beings: Dio Chrysostom (Oration 12) and Dan Sperber (Explaining Culture) Compared,” in P. Pachis and Donald Wiebe (eds), Chasing Down Religion: In the sights of history and the cognitive sciences. Essays in Honor of Luther H. Martin. Athens and Thessaloniki: Barbounakis.

2007. “Identifying and interacting with the ‘others’: The late antique ‘horoscope of Islam’,” in Z. A. Crook and P. A. Harland (eds), Identity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others. Essays in Honour of Stephen G. Wilson. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. 195-204.

2006. “On becoming a Mithraist: New evidence for the propagation of the Mysteries,” in L. Vaage (ed.), Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity. Waterloo ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 175-94.

2000. “Apuleius the novelist, Apuleius the Ostian householder, and the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres: Further explorations of an hypothesis of Filippo Coarelli,” in S. G. Wilson and M. Desjardin (eds), Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson. Studies in Christianity and Judaism 9. Waterloo ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 551-67.

Research

His current research interests are Religion in the Roman Empire, especially the cult of Mithras; the cognitive study of religion; ancient astrology and astronomy; the ancient novel, especially the works of Petronius and Apuleius.